Re: pls help me grok ELF, basis of PCA

Thanks to a little help from my friends, I managed to
get past this bump and thru section 2.2 of the paper...

see
http://www.w3.org/XML/9711theory/ELF.lsl
Id: ELF.lsl,v 1.5 2000/04/19 06:41:36 connolly Exp $

or the hypertext version
	http://www.w3.org/XML/9711theory/ELF.html
aka
	http://www.w3.org/XML/9711theory/ELF


Dan Connolly wrote:
> 
> So this PCA stuff
>         http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/projects/pca/
> 
> is based on this ELF thing
>         http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/lfcsreps/91/ECS-LFCS-91-162/
> 
> So I'm trying to read the ELF paper. I can't parse the formulas.
> In partuclar, the B-KIND-SIG rule on page 7... second premise.
> It seems to say
> 
>         K is a kind in \sigma
> 
> but this doesn't match any of the assertion forms on the previous page:
> 
>         \sigma is a valid signature
>         \gamma is a valid context in \sigma
>         K is a kind in \gamma and \sigma
>         A has kind K in \gamma and \sigma
>         M has type A in \gamma and \sigma
> 
> Help? Do they imply an empty \gamma in their notation or something?

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Wednesday, 19 April 2000 02:53:52 UTC